when you cut off unecessary components on circuit boards, do you just cut them off while the circuit board is on and see if it stops working or do you jump the leads? What process do you use to determine what to cut and what exactly do you do?

ben: your skill in making new and unique what once were old and common is quite incredible. have you any suggestions for any aspiring engineers? books to read? devices to dismantle? practice vs theory?

I was going to say “interviews with the hacking big names, like ben heck, would be shiny” in the podcast feedback… 8|My question would be, what would you like to see in the new generation of handhelds/consoles, either for the unadulterated system or for hackability? and what potential do you see for novel interface gizmos like those in the revol.. sorry, the Wii?

First, what’s your favorite console and why?Second, i’ll ask the same thing as David Perry, What would you do to bring the sony psp back to life, what design errors you see software and hardware wise? (i mean, such an poweful system ruined by drm and overpriced hardware)

Hey ben :) I’d love to see some wonderful mods to the nintendo DS. frankly there are not any out there. And if anyone can do it, its you. so when are ya going to do some :P. Good job on the 360laptop, i’d love to have one of those. It came out so clean it looked as if it was ment to be that way. Keep up all your amazing work, i can’t wait to see your next project!

What is two or three of the best consoles to hack or mod and why?I really would like to have a console that plays all game systems and have a gigantic hard drive to do it,even though I realize the old school games take almost no space on todays hard drives.I value your opinion and would like to know which console/consoles are best for turning into an universal console.THANKS & Looking forward to your reply!!!